Barbara Picower, the widow of Jeffry Picower, the largest beneficiary of Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, has awarded $104 million in grants over two years through a new foundation.
A Jewish online publication in South Africa apologized for an Op-Ed that compared Archbishop Desmond Tutu to Adolf Hitler.
U.N. peacekeepers in the Golan Heights are pulling out from its positions and a camp on the Syrian side of the Syrian-Israeli border due to a severe deterioration of security in the region, the United Nations said on Monday.
A rocket fired in Syria as part of that country’s war struck Israel near the Golan Heights border.
Paris will see the opening of its first Moishe House amid a soaring number of anti-Semitic attacks in France.
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will remain out of prison until he has exhausted his appeals.
A British sporting goods chain has apologized for a security guard preventing identifiably Jewish preteens from entering one of its stores.\n
It was the first Persian Gulf state to establish ties with Israel, the first to welcome Israeli students and the only one to allow direct dialing to Israel. Israeli athletes shine on its courts.
Germany will do all it can to fight anti-Semitism, Chancellor Angela Merkel said in a speech on Sunday, following a surge of abuse against Jews and spreading anti-Israeli sentiment aroused by the Gaza conflict.
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) must be the gutsiest supporter of Israel in American history, if you believe media accounts of his actions at a recent Christian assembly.
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